Not a ‘Groom,’ but ‘Grooming’: It’s Past Time to End Child Marriage in the United States - Ms. Magazine - eviltoast
Not a ‘Groom,’ but ‘Grooming’: It’s Past Time to End Child Marriage (Like Aaliyah to R. Kelly) in the United States

There’s no romance in being a child bride. And whether the “groom” is R. Kelly, with his marriage to 15-year-old Aaliyah, your great-grandmother, or Justine (name changed for protection)—a minor married to a man twice her age in the state of Maryland—more often than not, these marriages are a form of child abuse … government-sanctioned child abuse, in some states.

Child marriage remains legal in well over half of all U.S. states, with over 300,000 minors married between 2000 and 2018. Every year, hundreds of children of every gender, ethnicity and religious background are married, with no regard for their consent. “Groom” might be the technical term in these marriages, but “grooming” is more accurate.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    don’t recognize domestic violence as grounds for divorce

    WTF

    Says a lot about the motivations of the people who made those laws.